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Recognition of Foreign Companies and Bodies Corporate: The Concept of Recognition, a short historical review and a critical analysis of the main provisions of the EEC Recognition Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

J.H. Diephuis
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(a) The subject matter of this report is the recognition of foreign companies and bodies corporate as an issue of private international law. It deals with the two main aspects of the problem, i.e., that of the connecting factors for the recognition of companies and bodies corporate as such and that of the law that governs the personal law of the company or body.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , December 1980 , pp. 347 - 356
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1980

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11. Restatement, Second, Conflict of Laws, paras. 296, 297 and 299.

12. Thus the Cour d'Appel in Paris in the case of the Banque Ottomane, Revue Critique de Droit International Prive 1967 p. 84.Google Scholar This judgment applied Art. 2 para. 2, of the Convention signed at the Hague on 1 June 1956, and ratified by the Netherlands, Belgium and France but not yet in effect. This provision deals with the case in which recognition is sought in a country of a body corporate formed pursuant to the laws of a foreign state of which the real centre of management is located in a third state. Pursuant to the provision the recognition may be denied only by the former country if it and the third state apply the siège réel system.

13. For all three countries see the work by Henriquez mentioned in n. 2 pp. 59 and 60. For Germany see Beitzke, in Revue Critique de Droit International Prive, 1974 p. 53.Google Scholar

14. JO des Communautés Européennes of 15 January 1962 Nos. 32/62 and 36/62.

15. See Art. 11 of the 1968 Recognition Convention.

16. These states are five of the original Member States of the EEC, i.e., all except the Netherlands.